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Poems (Christie collection)

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in February 1942 and after several years and different postings in North Africa, did not return home until May 1945. Both Christie's autobiography and her official biography are silent on the subject of whether or not this poem dates from this period.
432:, another poem in the same sequence, is a poem about the loss of a loved one and was reprinted in a small sixteen-page volume of the same name in 1988 by the Souvenir Press with illustrations by Richard Allen ( 376:
or Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan to give him his full name. It is not known when the poem was written however the only prolonged absence the married coupled ever suffered was in the
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The book is divided into two volumes with the first part, which occupies over half of the book, being titled
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First edition cover (Book was issued without an illustrated dustjacket, but with a glassine wrapper)
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in January 1925. It was published in October 1973 at the same time as the novel
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1973, William Collins and Sons (London), October 1973, Hardcover, 124 pp
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and is stated on the copyright page to be a reprint of the contents of
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was, like its predecessor, divided into four sections:
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Index

Poems (Agatha Christie)

Agatha Christie
William Collins & Sons
ISBN
0-00-211681-2
OCLC
859459
Dewey Decimal
LC Class
Postern of Fate
Poirot's Early Cases
crime writer
Agatha Christie
The Road of Dreams
Postern of Fate
Max Mallowan
Second World War
Egypt
British Council


ISBN
0-285-62876-3
ISBN
0-285-62888-7
ISBN
0-00-211681-2
Dodd, Mead and Company
ISBN

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